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Number of data breaches falls globally, triples in the US
The Global data breach statistics report comes from Surfshark, which counts every leaked email address used to register for online services as a separate user account.
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NoaBot: Another Mirai Botnet Strikes at Linux Devices
Akamai's team of security experts has discovered a new cryptomining campaign, dubbed NoaBot, leveraging the SSH protocol to spread its malware.
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Cyber security isn’t simple, but it could be
The biggest problem is a tendency to ignore problems you can’t see or haven’t looked for, says SecurityHQ
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Telemarketer goes belly-up after data breach
Sensitive details of charity donors leaked and also sensitive employee information had also been leaked during the attack – including police checks, child support documents, HR incidents, immigration sponsorship details, COVID-19 vaccination credentials, and notably, tax file numbers, passports, and licences.
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Thousands of Android devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled
Somehow, advanced Triada malware was added to devices before reaching resellers.
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Post-Quantum Resilience for Security Keys
We introduce a hybrid digital signature scheme based on two building blocks: a classically-secure scheme, ECDSA, and a post-quantum secure one, Dilithium. Our hybrid scheme maintains the guarantees of each underlying building block even if the other one is broken, thus being resistant to classical and quantum attacks.
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So much for CAPTCHA – bots can do them quicker than humans
We, for one, welcome our distorted-letter-recognizing overlords
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Ukraine takes down massive bot farm, seizes 150,000 SIM cards
Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine dismantled another massive bot farm linked to more than 100 individuals after searches at almost two dozen locations.
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GitHub Leverages Passkeys to Enhance User Security
Passkeys, password replacements, have finally come to GitHub in beta.
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Microsoft on major Outlook and OneDrive outages: We were hacked
In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft’s flagship office suite — including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps — and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed responsibility, saying it flooded the sites with junk traffic in distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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Millions of Americans' personal data exposed in global hack
Millions of people in Louisiana and Oregon have had their data compromised in the sprawling cyberattack that has also hit the US federal government, state agencies said late Thursday.
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Google’s Android and Chrome extensions are a very sad place. Here’s why
No wonder Google is having trouble keeping up with policing its app store. Since Monday, researchers have reported that hundreds of Android apps and Chrome extensions with millions of installs from the company’s official marketplaces have included functions for snooping on user files, manipulating the contents of clipboards, and injecting deliberately unknown code into webpages.
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Inner workings revealed for “Predator,” the Android malware that exploited 5 0-days
Smartphone malware sold to governments around the world can surreptitiously record voice calls and nearby audio, collect data from apps such as Signal and WhatsApp, and hide apps or prevent them from running upon device reboots, researchers from Cisco’s Talos security team have found.
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Is cybersecurity an unsolvable problem?
Ars chats with law philosopher Scott Shapiro about his new book, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing. Turing himself showed that perfect cybersecurity is impossible through the proof that he gave. It's easy to extend the proof just to see that among the problems that cannot be solved are finding bugs in computer programs.
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Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled
Overall, Android devices have earned a decidedly mixed reputation for security. While the OS itself and Google's Pixels have stood up over the years against software exploits, the never-ending flow of malicious apps in Google Play and vulnerable devices from some third-party manufacturers have tarnished its image.
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It’s being called Russia's most sophisticated cyber espionage tool. What is Snake, and why is it so dangerous?
The Snake network has been detected in more than 50 countries, including Australia.
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Hackers promise AI, install malware instead
Meta on Wednesday warned that hackers are using the promise of generative artificial intelligence like ChatGPT to trick people into installing malicious code on devices. Over the course of the past month, security analysts with the social-media giant have found malicious software posing as ChatGPT or similar AI tools, chief information security officer Guy Rosen said in a briefing.
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Apple’s Macs have long escaped ransomware, but that may be changing
Security researchers are examining newly discovered Mac ransomware samples from the notorious gang LockBit, marking the first known example of a prominent ransomware group toying with macOS versions of its malware.
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Open garage doors anywhere in the world by exploiting this “smart” device
A market-leading garage door controller is so riddled with severe security and privacy vulnerabilities that the researcher who discovered them, Sam Sabetan, is advising anyone using one to immediately disconnect it until they are fixed.
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200 malicious Android and iOS apps draining bank accounts — check your phone now
If you need another reminder to be careful when downloading new apps for your devices, a new batch of malicious apps has been discovered stealing both data and money from unsuspecting users. As reported by Laptop Mag(opens in new tab), these 203 malicious iOS and Android apps were first discovered by Thailand’s Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (DES) and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
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